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Title: CHAT - PATTERN - 17th to 24th August 2014
Post by: oggalily on August 17, 2014, 08:32:55 PM
CHAT THREAD

This week's theme is PATTERN.

Any interpretation of the theme will be accepted so long as your entry depicts a pattern or patterns. It could be natural or artificial, choice is yours.  Also feel free to interrupt the pattern if you think this adds interest.

No restrictions on Post Processing.

Pictures to be taken between posting time on Sunday 17th August 2014 to 23:59 Sunday 24th August 2014.
Pictures to be posted in the entries thread no later than 23.59pm Monday 25th August 2014.
Poll will be up Tuesday 26th August 2014.
Winner to be announced Saturday 30th August 2014.

The Rules for the weekly competition are...

By entering you agree to take responsibility to
Post a topic on the Sunday following your declared win
Create an entries thread
Create a chat thread
Create a poll for that weeks comp and declare the winner on the Saturday
(if for any reason there is a problem and no subject is posted by the winner by Monday night admin will advise second place winner to post the topic asap, do the poll etc.)

In case of a tie, the first entry posted wins.

Photos to be taken during the specified dates, ie date at which the new topic is set xx to Sunday xx
Title: Re: CHAT - PATTERN - 17th to 24th August 2014
Post by: oggalily on August 21, 2014, 09:25:24 AM
Bit quiet here.  Any love for this topic?  Or are people just away on summer hols?
Title: Re: CHAT - PATTERN - 17th to 24th August 2014
Post by: spikeyjen on August 21, 2014, 09:35:08 AM
I'm off for a weekend away so will be looking for patterns along the way...
Title: Re: CHAT - PATTERN - 17th to 24th August 2014
Post by: Reinardina on August 21, 2014, 09:38:44 AM
Rather busy these days, but when I have my camera with me, I keep a look out for patterns while I go along. Have a few possibles already.
Title: Re: CHAT - PATTERN - 17th to 24th August 2014
Post by: jinky on August 21, 2014, 12:09:35 PM
Buried doing my accounts just now. As soon as I surface with a camera I`ll try and get one.
Title: Re: CHAT - PATTERN - 17th to 24th August 2014
Post by: Reinardina on August 21, 2014, 12:26:35 PM
Quote from: jinky on August 21, 2014, 12:09:35 PM
Buried doing my accounts just now. As soon as I surface with a camera I`ll try and get one.

Accounts normally show all sorts of patterns!
Title: Re: CHAT - PATTERN - 17th to 24th August 2014
Post by: Beaux Reflets on August 21, 2014, 03:45:13 PM
Quote from: Reinardina on August 21, 2014, 12:26:35 PM
Quote from: jinky on August 21, 2014, 12:09:35 PM
Buried doing my accounts just now. As soon as I surface with a camera I`ll try and get one.

Accounts normally show all sorts of patterns!

:2funny:
Title: Re: CHAT - PATTERN - 17th to 24th August 2014
Post by: Reinardina on August 21, 2014, 06:50:47 PM
Quote from: Beaux Reflets on August 21, 2014, 03:45:13 PM
Quote from: Reinardina on August 21, 2014, 12:26:35 PM
Quote from: jinky on August 21, 2014, 12:09:35 PM
Buried doing my accounts just now. As soon as I surface with a camera I`ll try and get one.

Accounts normally show all sorts of patterns!

:2funny:

They're not always the patterns you want.
Title: Re: CHAT - PATTERN - 17th to 24th August 2014
Post by: jinky on August 22, 2014, 01:21:11 PM
I broke my pattern this year having just finished them :). Seems I have to pay them something this year after getting decent tax refunds for my first 2 years. I doubt if it is enough to stop them classifying me as a hobbyist though. I`m aiming to stop doing weddings and the like from next March and have already turned down two weddings in 2015. They were easy to refuse as lower end in lousy venues - just hoping a belter doesn`t come up to make it difficult. I predict a loss this year by the time I get a Nikon service carried out on a few bits of gear before I start shooting just for me.
Title: Re: CHAT - PATTERN - 17th to 24th August 2014
Post by: Reinardina on August 23, 2014, 09:17:00 AM
Got a bit too many patterns, as all of a sudden, I seemed surrounded by them.
Decisions, decisions.
Title: Re: CHAT - PATTERN - 17th to 24th August 2014
Post by: oggalily on August 24, 2014, 08:26:22 PM
As usual I set a theme that I didn't have any ideas for.  Luckily I found something I was happy with without having to venture further than my back deck.  My model was a lot more cooperative than my kids are when I try to take their pictures!

(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10157/normal_OGG_8825-Edit-Edit.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=16456)
Title: Re: CHAT - PATTERN - 17th to 24th August 2014
Post by: Reinardina on August 24, 2014, 08:33:43 PM
My 'kid' (27) flatly refuses to be photographed by mum.
Title: Re: CHAT - PATTERN - 17th to 24th August 2014
Post by: DigiDiva on August 24, 2014, 10:27:20 PM
Quote from: oggalily on August 24, 2014, 08:26:22 PM
As usual I set a theme that I didn't have any ideas for.  Luckily I found something I was happy with without having to venture further than my back deck.  My model was a lot more cooperative than my kids are when I try to take their pictures!

(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10157/normal_OGG_8825-Edit-Edit.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=16456)

Hope you used an action setting, so as to avoid motion blur......
Title: Re: CHAT - PATTERN - 17th to 24th August 2014
Post by: DigiDiva on August 24, 2014, 10:27:50 PM
Changed my entry - Im now in with.....

Eclipse

(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11291/normal_IMG_2084.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=16457&fullsize=1)
Title: Re: CHAT - PATTERN - 17th to 24th August 2014
Post by: Jediboy on August 25, 2014, 12:57:02 AM
It's been another one of those weeks, so nothing again from me I'm afraid.  :'(
Title: Re: CHAT - PATTERN - 17th to 24th August 2014
Post by: oggalily on August 25, 2014, 10:33:04 AM
Quote from: DigiDiva on August 24, 2014, 10:27:20 PM
Quote from: oggalily on August 24, 2014, 08:26:22 PM
As usual I set a theme that I didn't have any ideas for.  Luckily I found something I was happy with without having to venture further than my back deck.  My model was a lot more cooperative than my kids are when I try to take their pictures!

(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10157/normal_OGG_8825-Edit-Edit.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=16456)

Hope you used an action setting, so as to avoid motion blur......
more of a still life :)
Title: Re: CHAT - PATTERN - 17th to 24th August 2014
Post by: jinky on August 25, 2014, 04:32:24 PM
I`m in with the old dependable grater  ;)
(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10154/normal_Grater.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=16464&fullsize=1)
Title: Re: CHAT - PATTERN - 17th to 24th August 2014
Post by: DigiDiva on August 26, 2014, 06:57:05 AM
ooooo, who to vote for? hard this week.
Title: Re: CHAT - PATTERN - 17th to 24th August 2014
Post by: oggalily on August 26, 2014, 08:01:04 AM
Poll's now up.  Hopefully I've done it right, it's been a while!  :) 

I agree DD, lots of good choices this week.  Always very satisfying to set a theme that ends up with a decent turnout and some creative interpretations.
Title: Re: CHAT - PATTERN - 17th to 24th August 2014
Post by: ABERS on August 26, 2014, 08:06:50 AM
Quote from: DigiDiva on August 26, 2014, 06:57:05 AM
ooooo, who to vote for? hard this week.

All depends. Do you vote for a picture of an existing pattern or a picture that makes a pattern? :-\